WUSF 89.7 is dedicated to providing you some of the most beautiful music in the world. Our knowledgeable and friendly hosts help create the perfect radio companion for lovers of good music. You can count on wonderful music, interesting information about the music, musicians and composers, as well being kept up-to-date on what's happening in in the music and cultural community throughout the west coast of Florida!
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WUSF 89.7 is dedicated to providing you with some of the most beautiful music in the world. Our knowledgeable and friendly hosts help create the perfect radio companions for lovers of good music. You can count on wonderful music, interesting information about the music, musicians and composers, as well being kept up-to-date on what's happening in the music and cultural community throughout the west coast of Florida!
Looking for a great way to unwind in the evening? WUSF 89.7 has inspiring classical music to fill your evenings with, every weeknight from 7:00 until 10:00 PM, and Sunday night from 9:00 until 11:00 PM with classical music host Coleen Cook. She’s a good evening radio companion who brings you wonderful music, and interesting background information about the composers who wrote it. She also helps you stay up-to-date with NPR News each hour and information on what's happening in the music and cultural community throughout the west coast of Florida!
Sunday Baroque allows you an opportunity each week to explore Baroque and early music (written before 1750). Composers such as Bach, Vivaldi, and Handel were the cornerstones of this era, with masterpieces including the Water Music, Royal Fireworks Music, and the Brandenburg Concertos.
Sunday Baroque celebrates the current wealth of recorded repertoire available, with great performances by yesterday's and today's best performers.
SymphonyCast is a two-hour weekly program featuring a full-length concert by a national or international symphony orchestra. Concerts are drawn from Europe's leading ensembles, along with U.S. orchestras, including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, The Philadelphia Orchestra and The Cleveland Orchestra.
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When it comes to Prokofiev's music, pianist and Yale University professor Boris Berman is the go-to guy. Along with faculty and student musicians, Berman will present newly discovered pieces by the Soviet composer at New York's Zankel Hall on Tuesday...
Passion turns into lasting love, but ends with desperate tragedy, in Puccini's beloved La Boheme — maybe the greatest "date opera" in history — in a racy new production from the Washington National Opera....
Top Hat, from 1935, featured Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. But commentator Rob Kapilow says the real star of the movie is Irving Berlin's classic song, "Cheek to Cheek."...
The chamber ensemble earned two Grammy nominations for its 2009 album, which rearranged classic tunes by the jazz composer Dave Brubeck. On the eve of the Grammy Awards, the string quartet visited NPR to play songs like "Blue Rondo a la Turk."...
In his first, true operatic masterpiece, Handel creates an odd-ball comedy filled with scheming characters from ancient Rome. Read the story and hear excerpts from the site of the opera's premiere, in 1710....
